Benbendc
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Welcome to Wikipedia, Benbendc! I am Marek69 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Managing a conflict of interest edit
Hello, Benbendc. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:
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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 17:05, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
- Dear MrOllie,
- I am a great fan of Wikipedia and spoke at Wikimania in 2006 when it was in Boston and later when it was in Washington, DC. I am an HCI researcher (CS Prof at Univ of Maryland) who has written about Wikipedia and other crowdsourced projects (Reader to Leader Framework https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/) and an occasional editor of Wikipedia projects.
- My current work is on Human-Centered AI, which is why I created the Wikipedia article, but then 20 others added to it. I'm troubled that you deleted the article. What can we do to restore the article and feature it as an emerging topic?
- Sincerely, Ben Shneiderman (ben@cs.umd.edu) Benbendc (talk) 18:35, 13 April 2022 (UTC)